And the question came to me, “Why don’t Americans see the Confederate flag the same way the Germans view the Nazi flag?”
The answer that came to me was this: America has never reckoned with its Holocaust.
Ponder this. In the middle of Berlin there is a massive memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. Where in Washington DC is a memorial to the lives lost in the Middle Passage?
When do Americans, collectively and culturally, reckon with their guilt in the slave trade?
A Case for Christian Magnanimity
The magnanimous person does not bear petty grudges, does not wallow in self-pity, does not demand penance, does not advertise his suffering, and does not stoop to settle every score. In an age where everyone is scrambling to be more aggrieved than everyone else, where we think nothing of retweeting praise and retweeting insults (to prove our aggrieved status), where apologies are routinely demanded and offendedness is next to godliness, surely we have much to learn about magnanimity.
Opinion: Why your filter bubble is destroying democracy
Our Facebook feeds are personalized based on past clicks and likes behavior, so we mostly consume political content that are similar to our views. Without realizing it, we develop tunnel vision. Rarely will our Facebook comfort zones expose us to opposing views, and as a result we eventually become victims to our own biases.
In biblical lands of Iraq, Christianity in peril after ISIS
Before ISIS, roughly 300,000 Christians remained in Iraq. But no one knows how many survived or how many will return home to restart their lives. Many of them, understandably, have lost hope.
They say Christianity is dead in Iraq. And the way of life they knew for generations has vanished.
During Jerome’s lifetime, the Greek Septuagint was the Old Testament of Christianity. However, a belief was quickly emerging that the Hebrew Bible was superior to the Septuagint. Jerome differed from his contemporary, Augustine on the matter. Augustine believed as many did with him and before him, that the Septuagint was the work of God and was as inspired, if not more so, as the Hebrew. The variances between the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint were believed to have been inspired by God for reasons of either clarity of the Hebrew or to better understand Christianity. Had the Bible remained in Hebrew, it was believed, the Jews would have safeguarded the text, and it would not have helped spread the Gospel throughout the ancient world. Augustine believed in the Septuagint, while Jerome believed the Hebrew to have been superior.
17 of the Best Internet Reactions to the Original iPhone
The conversation is focused on the brand new iPhone, which had just been unveiled. It’s a bit disorienting now to try to remember what it was like, eight years ago, to see Apple’s brand-new smartphone for the first time. This thread brings it all back. Here are 17 comments that sum up what it’s like to lay eyes on a device that’s about to change the world:
A Foolproof Thanksgiving Turkey Recipe
New York-based comedian and kinetic artist Joseph Herscher from Joseph’s Machines and his trusty dog, Matthew, demonstrate a simple, mistake-proof recipe for cooking a perfectly moist, golden brown turkey.